flick
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If, like the original, the protagonist wakes up as a 30-year-old in today’s modern world, some worry the flick won’t be as lighthearted as the original.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Circling back to the 1960 Sturges movie, near the end of the flick a character remarks that the Magnificent Seven gunslingers were “like the wind, blowing over the land and passing on.”
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
His flick on to Jones for his first score against England, this his impromptu burst down the short side, his footwork and his chip ahead for the Ben White try.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
That enabled them to flick on their air-defense radars at the last moment, so U.S. pilots would have little time to react—a tactic pilots came to call a “SAMbush.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
"You knock on it and flick its skin. Hear how this one sounds hollow, but this doesn't?"
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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